Young Woman in Green and Black, c. 1950s Photo Statuette painted tin bank With train on top

With train on top

with a face only a mother could love

I might guess this--and perhaps also the round hole in his cheek--indicate that he was constructed from wood salvaged from something else

and I confident that is the case

there are not enough marbles for six to play Chinese checkers

Young Woman in Green and Black, c. 1950s Photo Statuette painted tin bank With train on topFrom the same Rockport, MA collection as the painted tintype I just listed (and the other photos I've listed today too), a smiling photo statuette of a pretty young woman, c. 1950s I believe. I find the effect of transforming a photograph into a statuette such a curious thing like a doll, to be moved around, ready to be dropped into different scenarios which in this case seems precisely right, as one imagines this young woman's future had yet to be